Biblical spiritualities of the "City to come" : narratives of meaning, complexity, and resistance

Abstract:

“How does one develop an appropriate urban Christian Spirituality?” is the question this study asks. First, I develop a rigorous, yet open, theoretical framework with which to describe Christian Spirituality’s complexity: a description focused primarily on constraining the markers of Biblical Spirituality and City Spirituality. Within the limits placed on the complex system of Christian Spirituality,
I begin exploring various, mostly minor, tropes of urban biblical spiritualities in the “Old” and “New” Testament. From these analyses, I evince the implications of these biblical spirituality tropes for the current city theater, and also construe a set of questions evaluating the appropriateness of mitigating urban communities. The study culminates in an imagined ideal mitigating urban community named an ekklesiastes: a wisdom teaching technology of urban meaning, complexity, and resistance.

Citation:Du Toit, Calvyn Clarence (2015) Biblical spiritualities of the "City to come" : narratives of meaning, complexity, and resistance, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19691>

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